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Using the method of scansion, match each poetry excerpt to the correct rhythm and meter. trochaic octameter (the foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. this pattern repeats eight times in each line.) iambic pentameter (the foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. this pattern repeats five times in each line.) iambic heptameter (the foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. this pattern repeats seven times in each line.) dactylic tetrameter (the foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. this pattern repeats four times in each line.) o could i feel as i have felt, or be what i have been (lord byron, “youth and age”) arrowright once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary (edgar allan poe, “the raven”) arrowright just for a handful of silver he left us (robert browning, “the lost leader”) arrowright shall i compare thee to a summer’s day? (william shakespeare, sonnet 18) arrowright

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